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Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: a literature synthesis

Understanding how urban forests developed their current patterns of tree canopy cover, species composition,and diversity requires an appreciation of historical legacy effects. However, analyses of current urban forestcharacteristics are often limited to contemporary socioeconomic factors, overlooking the role of history. Theinstitutions, human communities, and biophysical conditions of cities change over time, creating layers of legacieson the landscape, shifting urban forests through complex interactive processes and feedbacks. Urbangreen spaces and planted trees can persist long after their establishment, meaning that today’s mature canopyreflects conditions and decisions from many years prior. In this synthesis article, we discuss some of the majorhistorical human and biophysical drivers and associated legacy effects expressed in present urban forest patterns,highlighting examples in the United States and Canada. The bioregional context – native biome, climate, topography,initial vegetation, and pre-urbanization land use – represents the initial conditions in which a cityestablished and grew, and this context influences how legacy effects unfold. Human drivers of legacy effects canreflect specific historical periods: colonial histories related to the symbolism of certain species, and the urbanparks and civic beautification movements. Other human drivers include phenomena that cut across time periodssuch as neighborhood urban form and socioeconomic change. Biophysical legacy effects include the consequencesof past disturbances such as extreme weather events and pest and disease outbreaks. Urban treeprofessionals play a major role in many legacy effects by mediating the interactions and feedbacks betweenbiophysical and human drivers. We emphasize the importance of historical perspectives to understand past drivers that have produced current urban forest patterns, and call for interdisciplinary and mixed methodsresearch to unpack the mechanisms of long-term urban forest change at intra- and inter-city scales

Alirocumab and cardiovascular outcomes after acute coronary syndrome

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